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Historical Fiction December 2018
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| Little by Edward CareyIntroducing: Anne Marie Grosholtz, the Swiss orphan who grows up to become famous wax sculptor Madame Tussaud.
Why you might like it: Narrated with wit and verve by Marie, Little is a picaresque story of personal reinvention that unfolds against the backdrop of the French Revolution.
Illustration alert: Complementing the text are pen-and-ink spot drawings that are simultaneously whimsical and macabre. |
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The Silence of the Girls
by Pat Barker
The Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy reimagines The Iliad from the perspectives of the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War
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The Little Shop of Found Things
by Paula Brackston
A woman who takes over an antique shop with her mother finds herself transported back to the 17th century while examining a beautiful silver chatelaine. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Witch's Daughter
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Master of His Fate
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
A charismatic and ambitious businessman in Victorian England faces the tragic ruin of everything he has worked to achieve before a royal summons gives him a chance to prove his talents. By the award-winning author of Secrets of Cavendon
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Paris in the Dark
by Robert Olen Butler
Working undercover for the U.S. government in World War I Paris, reporter Kit Cobb tests the limits of his skills and principles to investigate a string of dynamite bombings possibly linked to a German operative. By a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
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Miss Mary's Daughter
by Diney Costeloe
A gritty and heartrending drama set in 19th-century Cornwall. Orphan Sophie and her friend Hannah are welcomed into the Penvarrow family but tensions rise and family secrets are revealed.
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The Summer Maiden
by Dilly Court
1873. When Carrie Manning's father dies her mother, Esther, is heartbroken. Essie leaves London to convalesce with her good friend Lady Alice, and it is down to Carrie to look after her family and take charge of the shipping company that her father has left behind. But the company is in dire straits, forcing Carrie seek work as a companion to Maria Colville. When Carrie and Maria try to track down Maria's mother, they have no idea of the secrets that they will discover. Secrets that link the Colvilles, the Mannings and figures from the past who return to England.
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News of Our Loved Ones
by Abigail De Witt
Shifting back and forth through time, tells the story of the daughter of a French woman who married an American as she struggles to understand her family's experience during World War II.
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Paris Echo
by Sebastian Faulks
An American historical researcher in World War II Paris and a Moroccan teen who risked his life to enter France find the realities of the Nazi occupation transforming their ideas about sacrifice and happiness.
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The District Nurses of Victory Walk
by Annie Groves
Alice Lake has arrived in London from Liverpool to start her training as a District Nurse, but her journey has been far from easy. Her parents think that she should settle down and get married, but she has already had her heart broken once and isn't about to make the same mistake again. Alice and her best friend Edith are based in the East End but before they've even got their smart new uniforms on, war breaks out and Hitler's bombs are raining down on London. Alice must learn to keep calm and carry on as she tends to London's sick and injured, all the time facing her own heartache and misfortune while keeping up the Spirit of the Blitz.
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The Paris Seamstress
by Natasha Lester
When Fabienne Bissette attends the annual Met Gala for an exhibit honoring her grandmother Estella, a famed designer, she begins to learn more about her grandmother's past, uncovering a story of tragedy, heartbreak, and secrets
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Prague Spring
by Simon Mawer
Two Oxford backpackers confront the realities of Alexander Dubcek's socialist philosophies in turbulent 1960s Czechoslovakia, while a British diplomat stationed in Prague connects with the youth scene in the face of a gathering Red Army.
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The Beekeeper's Promise
by Fiona Valpy
In 1938, Eliane Martin tends beehives in the garden of the beautiful Château Bellevue. In its shadow she meets Mathieu Dubosq and falls in love for the first time, daring to hope that a happy future awaits. But France’s eastern border is darkening under the clouds of war, and history has other plans for Eliane.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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